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		spamizbad on Dec 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using H... > HTML/CSS/JS is exceptionally good at building user interfaces Only if your background is HTML/CSS/JS. If you have no web background, figuring out the idiosyncrasies of CSS and JS, while very doable, is still very time-consuming. I can't imagine it being any faster than someone going the native route assuming they do not have an existing web skillset to leverage.

macspoofing on Dec 18, 2012 [–]

>If you have no web background, figuring out the idiosyncrasies of CSS and JS, while very doable, is still very time-consuming.

That's true for anything. Objective-C is not exactly intuitive.

killahpriest on Dec 18, 2012 | [–]

Actually, it's NSCounterIntuitive

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